Jade True Person had only met He Dao once, many years ago. When he had roamed the world in his prime, He Dao had long since entered prolonged seclusion. He had dealt far more with Xi Yue... yet at a single glance, he knew the visitor was indeed He Dao.
This was also a historic meeting between the former leaders of the righteous and demonic paths of Divine Land, though speaking of righteous and demonic paths in Divine Land now seemed somewhat laughable. He Dao and Jade True Person exchanged smiles, neither lingering on the subject. They seemed like old friends who had known each other for years, rather than enemies of ten thousand years.
Because there was truly no meaning in it anymore. If anything, it only invited a sigh over how seas had turned into mulberry fields.
"I heard your realm fell, yet it seems you have recovered now?" Jade True Person poured He Dao a cup of Azure Underworld Wine and asked, "Not much time has passed. Was it because the complete Gate has made the Supreme Clarity realm easier to attain now? Or because rebuilding after a fall is simpler?"
"It was only the heart. Obsession breeds delusion—how could one reach Supreme Clarity that way? Let go of one obsession, and one discovers it was not so difficult after all... Of course, it also had to do with having once stood at the summit. What one has seen is still something one has seen. It no longer had much to do with the Gate." He Dao smiled. "Naturally, everyone's circumstances differ. The Gate's completion will still be very useful to True Person. If True Person wishes to glimpse the path to Supreme Clarity in the future, it should not be as difficult as it was for